ah, sorry, here's the actual link: i asked a room full of node.js developers, "who here's familiar with streams?", half raised their hands; when i asked "how many of you have used them?" only 3 out like 30 people had used streams

dominictarr: programming UIs with vot or tsov is vastly different. I don't think there is much overlap in terms of primitives. i.e. the reducers/reducible & observable/graphics primitives are quite different.

mikolalysenko: I hadn't really searched for the term 'forests' before but it seems forest/poset terminology differs on a very subjective basis - posets have a huge mathematical heritage which hasn't fully translated into CS as of yet

mikolalysenko: I think graphs, arrays and matrices are great for describing generic computer systems but I am personally interested in modelling human knowledge which I believe is ultimately hierarchical, and in search of ways to fit it all into a database I was convinced of the power of posets initially by this paper: www.csd.uwo.ca/tech-reports/488/pod.ps